wow what a big quake.....8,500 people.... I am sorry.

And Myanmar needs a huge help

8.500 in a country of 1.3 billion is below minimal damage. Mianmar on the other hand could reach 1.5 million , thats harsh

Well, if we look at the these catastrophes from a humanistic point of view, both are very bad.

ofcourse it is sad, but i wanted to point that we should be happy there werent more

Actually I am really sorry. Have you seen Myanmar? It made me cry....

but so many years they have done nothing to kick this junta out , only the monks. These asians sometimes give me the impression they are like sheep

There is no denying that 8000+ Chinese dead doesn't strike us as a huge humanitarian loss. But that's only if we define people with different ethnicities as separate to each other. As almost none of us here do, almost none see this as a huge loss.

Let's just hope, as always, that the pain of their loved ones will past swiftly.

Lol, human lives were lost and everyone is saying under the table...

"Who gives a shit they are 1.2 billion, wish more of them died because they rest could use the extra space".

People are dead and its bad. Rest in peace for those who were lost. And condolences to the relatives.

i didnt say that george , i said that 8.5K is a small number and kudos to chinese infrastructure since such a high concentration of population could trigger the death toll to millions.

a tragedy was the turkish quake , because the death toll was far greater in analogy to population size.

I understand what you mean. But I dont think we should weight tragedies while taking acount the demographics of a country.

We should just take on account how many humans died, just that.

Has anyone seen Boomer? He lives half his life in China!

I think we should set up a touch stone thread, so if any disaster hits, people from that area can leave a note to say they are ok.

Just an idea?